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We went to the in-laws house today to make another pilgrimage to CostCo. Like many Americans, we make these warehouse pilgrimages periodically to buy 800 rolls of toilet paper and 60 pounds of laundry detergent at a slight discount. It's not just the savings that drives these pilgrimages, it's the...
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Our stray cat Jasper has been in a strange pattern of disappearing for the past few weeks. She's been disappearing for three or four days at a time, and then showing up, thin and starving. She eats a few bowls of food, hangs out for two or three days and disappears again.
Initially, I thought sh...
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The typhoon has mostly disolved into a tropical storm, but heavy rains are still falling across Japan, reaching as far north as the Tohoku region. There's plenty of flooding, and isolated cases of landslides and building collapses, mostly on the southern island of Kyushu. It's enough to keep the m...
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We've been under a tropical cyclone (typhoon) watch for the past week or so, but the weather predictions have been all over the place, and updated with completely new predictions every few hours. Originally, it was supposed to hit us Wednesday, 28 August, but after several revisions, it was schedul...
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After being missing for four days, our stray cat, Jasper, suddenly showed up tonight. Skinny and very hungry, but seemingly okay, she finished off two bowls of dry food and a bowl of moist food before she wandered off for a nap. I have no idea where she was, but it seems she got trapped somewhere....